Digest for October 18, 1996
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-18 October 96 Russian Museums
RECENT EMAIL . . .
01-18 October 96 Sender: "M.L." (RAY4U@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: need email address from Mukachevo-Ukraine
02-18 October 96 Sender: russia-rail@netinfo.com.au (Athol Yates)
Subject: Maps of Krasnoyarsk, Perm & Ulan-Bator
03-18 October 96 Sender: Harry Wetherbee (hwetherb@pop.erols.com)
Subject: Repin painting
04-18 October 96 Sender: Cathy Walton (cwalton@cwalton.seanet.com)
Subject: Russian typecase program
05-18 October 96 Sender: Barbara Keys, bjkeys@fas.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Looking for Kristen Hayden
06-18 October 96 Sender: UncleVania@aol.com
Subject: Russian-oriented web site.
07-18 October 96 Sender: Elizabeth Berg (eberg@po.pacific.net.sg)
Subject: need festivals info
08-18 October 96 Sender: User (User@stran-ni.ac.uk)
Subject: Internet use in the classroom
09-18 October 96 Sender: "April E. Gifford" (agifford@polaris.umuc.edu)
Subject: comments, questions
10-18 October 96 Sender: Eric Fenster (efenster@igc.apc.org)
Subject: Moscow/Paris trips details ready
11-18 October 96 Sender: panasevi (panasevi@scf-fs.usc.edu)
Subject: Russian protest over lack of science support
12-18 October 96 Sender: nkleger@ilhawaii.net
Subject: Proposal to Save Russian Art
13-18 October 96 Sender: "J. Michael Antoniewicz" (michaela@ncat.edu)
Subject: Post IUE Final Command Action? (fwd)
14-18 October 96 Sender: "Funding Opportunity System" (funding@voyager.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: FOR NEXT DIGEST !!!! NRC--Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE)
15-18 October 96 Sender: Trevor Gunn (GUNN@USITA.GOV)
Subject: World Bank Training Program for Russia
16-18 October 96 Sender: Joaquin Carlos Jimeno Romero (joaquin@servimail.ari.es)
Subject: about query 17 digest 1707
17-18 October 96 Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UFP+: Ukrainian Weekly Preview October 6th, 1996 now ONLINE! TWG
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
Russian Museums
Visit new Russian museums on the Internet:
-State Darwin Museum of Natural History.
(russian only, but lots of photos).
-Museum-Preserve "Kolomenskoe".
-State's Pushkin museum..
Please see the Museums and Art Galleries section from
the Art/Music/Literature page or directly at URL:
http://www.museum.ru/defengl.htm (English Version)
or
http://www.museum.ru/default.htm
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: "M.L." (RAY4U@worldnet.att.net)
Subject: need email address from Mukachevo-Ukraine
Please send me some Email address from Mukachevo-Ukraine
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Sender: russia-rail@netinfo.com.au (Athol Yates)
Subject: Maps of Krasnoyarsk, Perm & Ulan-Bator
Greetings,
Does anyone have a recent city map in Russian of
* Krasnoyarsk
* Perm
* Ulan-Bator
I am pleased to pay for these.
Regards
Athol Yates
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Athol Yates, author of Siberian BAM Railway Guide (Dec 1995)
& Russia by Rail (Sept 1996).
RUSSIA-RAIL INTERNET TRAVEL SERVICE
Email: russia-rail@russia-rail.com
WWW home: http://www.russia-rail.com
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Sender: Harry Wetherbee (hwetherb@pop.erols.com)
Subject: Repin painting
I am trying to locate a print of the Repin painting "Zaporozhe Cossacks
writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan" but have been unable to locate
anyone who can help me. Can you tell me a museum or other store which
might sell such a print? Thanks very much for your help. Harry Wetherbe
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Sender: Cathy Walton (cwalton@cwalton.seanet.com)
Subject: Russian typecase program
Hello,
I am an English as a SEcond Language teacher in Renton Washington, USA.
(this is just SW of Seattle). I would like to find a computer program
that would allow me to type in the Russian language. Do you have
knowledge of where I can locate one?
Thank you.
Cathy Walton
cwalton@renton.wednet.edu
cwalton@cwalton.seanet.com
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Sender: Barbara Keys, bjkeys@fas.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: Looking for Kristen Hayden
I'm looking for a friend of mine who was working in Moscow when I last
heard from her a year ago. If anyone has an address for Kristin Hayden
(a.k.a. Mama Mac), please let me know! Thanks.
____________________________________________________________________
Barbara Keys History Department, 201 Robinson Hall
bjkeys@fas.harvard.edu Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138
____________________________________________________________________
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Sender: UncleVania@aol.com
Subject: Russian-oriented web site.
Hi! I'm doing some interesting work on my web site, quite different than you
see elsewhere. It is a continuation of "The MARS Newsletter" which was
published hardcopy for eleven years. The URL is:
http://members.aol.com/unclevania/mars.html
Thanks! Jon Mars
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Sender: Elizabeth Berg (eberg@po.pacific.net.sg)
Subject: need festivals info
I'm in charge of a book series on Festivals of the World and we are
currently putting together the book on Russia. Do you have any suggestions
of where I could find information on what festivals are currently
celebrated in Russia and how people celebrate them? We also need
photographs of festivals in Russia (which we pay for).
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Sender: User (User@stran-ni.ac.uk)
Subject: Internet use in the classroom
I am a final year student at teaching college in Northern Ireland. We
have been set an assignment to find out how schools are using the
internet. I have found your homepage of great interest, and would be
delighted if you could advise me on how you are using the internet in
an educational sense.
If you could mail me at 930472u@stran-ni.ac.uk
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Sender: "April E. Gifford" (agifford@polaris.umuc.edu)
Subject: comments, questions
Hi!
I've just visited the Friends home page for the first time...Ed Dolan in
Moscow recommended your site for information. Do you have any specific
information about Russian-related jobs? I just moved to the D.C. area
and am looking for work. I have a Ph.D. in Russian language and culture
(literature) and have been taking Economics coursework...may enter an
M.A. program in Economics...but need to work full-time. Any
suggestions?
"Friends" seems wonderful and I'm looking forward to exploring it more.
Thanks for your help,
April Gifford
p.s. do you know how I get Cyrillic on the computer? (It's a university
computer, so if any software has to be purchased, I may have to do it
myself.)
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Sender: Eric Fenster (efenster@igc.apc.org)
Subject: Moscow/Paris trips details ready
Detailed information and the application for the 1997 study trips to Moscow
and/or Paris are now ready.
Please request by e-mail directly to me, not to the list.
Topics are the political, economic and social conditions in Russia or
France/EU.
Open to all adults. Program conducted in English.
Options
a. Moscow 09 May-07 Jun
b. Paris 06 Jun-22 Jun
c. Moscow 21 Jun-20 Jul
d. Moscow, then Paris
e. Paris, then Moscow
Eric Fenster efenster@igc.org
PS If you use the Web, photos of the living quarters in Moscow and Paris are
on: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/efenster
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Sender: panasevi (panasevi@scf-fs.usc.edu)
Subject: Russian protest over lack of science support
)From: vladimir (vladimir@scf.usc.edu
FROM THE STATEMENT FOR THE PRESS
by Academician V.N. Strakhov, General Director of UIPE RAS and
I.I.Naumenko-Bondarenko, Chairman of the Trade Union Committee
of UIPE RAS
On September the 30th, 1996, we, academician Strakhov Vladimir
Nikolaevich, General Director of UIPE RAS and Naumenko-Bondarenko
Igor Ilyich, Chairman of the Trade Union Committee of UIPE RAS
started a hunger strike in a protest against the policy of the Government
of the Russian Federation with regard to Russian science in
general and to the Russian Academy of Sciences in particular.
This policy which has been conducted since 1992 has virtually
resulted in a collapse of the Russian science, first of all of a branch
one. Non-payments of budget financing in 1996 put a final and
irrevocable elimination of the Russian science including the Russian Academy
of Sciences on the agenda. The main features of the process of
the agony of the Russian science are being defined by the
following:
a) a criminally low level of wages for an overwhelming majority of
scientists, including Candidates (Ph.D.) and Doctors of Sciences
(Prof.) which does not provide even a subsistence minimum;
b) a heavy moral state of a majority of scientists caused by
a miserable level of wages;
c) a quick loss of professionalism of a higher level by
a majority of scientific staff due to enormous stress;
d) absence of young specialists inflow;
e) a moral and physical wear of the material-technical basis of science;
it is not possible to obtain the results of the world level
without modern experimental equipment and modern computer
technique;
f) absence of a necessary level of informational supply of science
(by books, journals, telecommunications, work-shops, conferences etc.)
At present a lag from a level of the world science for 5-7
years is equal to a complete death of science. Russian
science has been already lagging behind for five years.
To develop a common state plan of reorganization of science it
is necessary to be guided by long term considerations relating to
a steady development of the country and its population:
a) expenses for science should be transferred to a number of
protected items of the budget;
b) special programs on technical re-equipment of science, and
first of all - the kept RAS Institutes, should be envisaged;
c) a general level of expenses on science should annually grow,
making 4% of the expenditure part of the budget in 1997,
according to the recently adopted law.
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September 30th, 1996
United Institute of Physics of the Earth,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
TO ALL AND EVERYBODY !
The staff of UIPE RAS fully shares the demands of academician
Strakhov Vladimir Nikolaevich, Director of the Institute, and
Naumenko-Bondarenko Igor Ilyich, Chairman of the Trade Union Committee,
came forward with an extreme action, dangerous for their health, and
appeals to the scientific community of Russia and the whole world
to support this action by all the possible ways of a civic protest.
Would you, please, convey this information on the present events to
all the public and scientific collectives, to all people
capable of influencing the policy conducted by the government.
Would you, please, inform us about your support and actions
of protest carried out by you through
E-mail: strakhov@dir.iephys.msk.su
Fax of V.N.Strakhov: +7/O95/255-6040 or +7/095/254-9088
Fax of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences:
+7/095/938-1928
P.S.
If you have an e-mailing list of appropriate organizations for
ending the information, you are welcome to use it.
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Sender: nkleger@ilhawaii.net
Subject: Proposal to Save Russian Art
After hearing on CNN that the Russian government may be forced to sell
pieces of art, it struck me that there may be a better solution.
PROPOSAL
That the Russian government not sell pieces of art but that they instead
lease them for 5 or 10 years at a time to interested major institutions
around the world.
REASONING
If the government were to offer art pieces or whole collections up for lease
instead of for sale, it would seem to solve several problems:
1) Earn Money - Necessary currency could still be generated - perhaps
even more than under the original plan because; now there would be less
danger of permanently losing Russian treasures therefore more items could be
considered, and a given piece could be leased several times, not just sold once.
2) Maintain Ownership - Russia would still maintain ownership of its
treasures and would have them back at the end of the lease period.
3) Protect Deteriorating Collections - Artwork that now cannot be cared
for properly would be transferred to institutions that would be able to
protect and/or restore it until such time as Russia wishes to house the
artwork again.
4) Foster Greater International Trust & Understanding - Giving the rest
of the world a chance to see what is probably a vast and largely unknown
(outside of Russia) body of art is a worthwhile end itself. This would
become an incredible brochure of Russia, teaching people through the art
about Russia's history, people and culture. As well, the act of loaning a
national treasure to another country demonstrates openness, trust and a
belief in a positive future with that country like few other things can.
Taken together this would serve to create a better understanding of Russia
and a desire to visit there.
5) More Desirable International Image - It would be better to be seen
as country that is using a creative solution to a temporary difficulty than
as one that is being forced to auction off irreplaceable objects.
To the recipients of this email - Thank you for your time. Why did you get
this email? This is my effort to try and get this suggestion through to
someone who might be in a position to do something with the idea, or to
discard it based on real knowledge of the situation, which I admittedly
lack. However, not understanding the Russian language, trying to find an
appropriate email address was beyond me. While searching various Russian
oriented WWW sites I gathered your names and email addresses as possibly
having an interest in the subject and/or being able to forward the email on
to a better recipient which you may know. Once again, thank you for your
time and consideration.
Please do not feel any need to respond back to me on this.
Yours truly,
Nathan Kleger
nkleger@ilhawaii.net
Kailua-Kona, HI
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Sender: "J. Michael Antoniewicz" (michaela@ncat.edu)
Subject: Post IUE Final Command Action? (fwd)
Would anyone like to second? Third? Four hundredth? One thousandth?
Please do.
Michael.
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:45:50 -0400 (EDT)
)From: J. Michael Antoniewicz (michaela@ncat.edu
To: "Daniel S. Goldin NASA Administrator" (dgoldin@admingw.hq.nasa.gov
Sir,
Now that the IUE has been swiched off, why not see about donating
it to the Smithsonian like the Viking landers? As for why, see below.
Just a thought.
Regards,
Michael.
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:52:10 -0400
)From: NASA HQ Public Affairs Office (NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.gov
To: press-release-edu2@venus.hq.nasa.gov
Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC September 30, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1753)
Tammy Jones
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(Phone: 301/286-5566)
RELEASE: 96-194
INTERNATIONAL ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER PREPARED TO RECEIVE ITS FINAL COMMAND
After nearly 19 years of operation, NASA's International
Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) spacecraft will receive its final
"shutdown" -- marking the end of one of the longest and most
productive missions in the history of space science.
"The decision to shut down a hardy veteran like IUE was
not an easy one," said Dr. Wesley Huntress, Associate
Administrator for Space Science at NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC. "However, we have to balance our available
budgetary resources with an increasing number of productive
space science missions that require operational support. IUE
has been incredibly productive over its long lifetime."
Originally designed for a three-year life, the
observatory and its spectrographic instruments enable studies
of astronomical and cosmic phenomena that emit ultraviolet
radiation, which is blocked from ground-based telescopes by
Earth's atmosphere. IUE has been controlled from NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, for the past two decades.
"IUE was a pioneering research spacecraft for observing
the ultraviolet spectrum," said Dr. Yoji Kondo, IUE project
scientist at Goddard. "Many of the scientists that use the
Hubble Space Telescope and other space-based observatories
today began by studying the ultraviolet with IUE."
Some of IUE's most recent research includes observations
of Comet Hyakutake during March 1996. Scientists using IUE
tracked and observed the nucleus of Comet Hyakutake for five
days, obtaining exposures of up to five hours in duration
that provided new insights into the chemical processes taking
place inside the comet. The comet was found to be ejecting
ten tons of water every second as it passed near the Sun.
Astronomers also were able to confirm that the "break up"
event of March 24 involved only a small piece of the comet,
Kondo said.
IUE has contributed to many branches of astronomical
research over the years, ranging from studies of objects in
the Solar System to observations of distant galaxies. This
includes the historic first identification of the star that
exploded and became known as Supernova 1987A.
Goddard has operated the IUE in three-way collaboration
with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Particle Physics
and Astronomy Research Council (formerly the British Science
Engineering and Research Council) of the United Kingdom since
the spacecraft's launch on Jan. 26, 1978. IUE has been
operated in a real-time mode similar to ground-based
observatories, and was the only geosynchronous scientific
satellite observatory capable of working continuously 24
hours per day.
More than 2,000 guest observers from all corners of the
world, including astronomers from North and South America,
Europe, China, India, Russia, Africa, and Australia, have
used the observatory at Goddard and through the ESA control
site in Spain. Approximately 3,500 scientific articles based
on IUE observations have been published in peer-reviewed
journals -- the largest number for any satellite observatory
thus far. In addition, more than 500 doctoral students have
used IUE results in their dissertations, clearly
demonstrating the importance of the IUE project to the
education of the next generation of astrophysicists.
"IUE has contributed significantly to astronomical
science over the years. Yet its ultimate legacy will be the
final data archive, which will be completed by the end of
1997," Kondo said. "Using newly developed software,
additional scientific information will be gleaned from more
than 100,000 astronomical observations that are currently
being reprocessed. This data archive will be stored for
future reference and will remain an important resource for
astrophysical studies for many years to come."
As part of NASA's continuing budget reduction efforts,
day-to-day science control of the IUE was fully transferred
to ESA on Oct. 1, 1995, thus combining the NASA and ESA IUE
science programs, although Goddard maintained responsibility
for the daily operational maintenance of the spacecraft. It
was jointly decided by NASA and ESA that final shutdown would
occur on Sept. 30, 1996.
A past winner of the U.S. Presidential Award for Design
Excellence, IUE has been used as a central facility in many
multiwavelength observations, an important modern approach to
astrophysical research. The spacecraft has been used in
conjunction with ground-based telescopes and other space
observatories, including the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
and the Hubble Space Telescope.
More information on IUE and other related astrophysics
missions is available on the Internet at URL:
http://iuewww.gsfc.nasa.gov/iue/iue_homepage.html
-end-
Editor's note: A more detailed list of IUE scientific
highlights is available from the NASA Goddard Public Affairs
Office at 301/286-8955.
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Sender: "Funding Opportunity System" (funding@voyager.rtd.utk.edu)
Subject: FOR NEXT DIGEST !!!! NRC--Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE)
NRC--Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE)
SPONSOR: National Research Council
SYNOPSIS: Grants are provided to U.S. scientists who wish to collaborate
with their foreign colleagues in Central/Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent
States, to conduct research projects in science and engineering. Both short-term
project development grants for two weeks, and long-term research grants
for up to six months, are offered.
DEADLINES: 1996-12-30 1997-04-07 1997-07-07 1997-08-11
OBJECTIVES: Short-Term Project Development Grants support American specialists
who wish to host or visit their CEE or NIS colleagues for a two-week (ten
to fourteen days only) period in order to prepare a collaborative research
proposal for submission to the National Science Foundation. Long-Term Grants
support American specialists who wish to host or visit their CEE or NIS
colleagues for collaboration with research for a period of one to six months.
Significant publications jointly authored by program participants as a
result of their long-term visits are expected. Accepted fields are only
fields generally funded by NSF, including archaeology and anthropology;
astronomy; biochemistry; biophysics and genetics; biological sciences;
chemistry; computer science; earth sciences; economics; engineering;
environmental
sciences; geography; history and philosophy of science; mathematics; physics;
psychology; science and technology policy; and social sciences. Participating
countries include Azerbaijan (traveling only), Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia
(hosting in U.S. only), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia,
Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova,
Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Types of proposals that are unacceptable include
research on agricultural production; clinical research including drug testing
or development; the diagnosis, etiology, or treatment of physical or mental
diseases, abnormalities, or malfunctions in humans; or the use of animal
models of human diseases or conditions.
RESTRICTIONS: Eligible applicants are U.S. citizens and permanent residents
who possess or will possess Ph.D. degrees or equivalent research at least
six months prior to the requested beginning dates of their programs. Visiting
specialists must possess CEE or NIS citizenship and must hold Ph.D. (kandidat)
degrees (or equivalent research training and experience) at least six months
prior to the requested beginning dates of their programs. Although visiting
scientists may spend part of their visits at U.S. government facilities,
the program does not generally support the travel of U.S. government employees.
The program is primarily designed to support new collaborative efforts;
no more than two grants will be awarded per applicant in a four-year period.
Applicants who have received their doctoral degrees within the past six
years will receive special consideration, as will applicants wishing to
work with colleagues in less frequently represented countries and regions.
MONETARY: Grants for Short-Term Project Development -- $2,200-$2,500; and
Long-Term -- $3,000-$15,300.
COMMENTS: The December 30, 1996, April 07, 1997, and August 11, 1997 deadlines
are for Project Development only; and July 07, 1997 is for Long-Term only.
CONTACT INFO: 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20418
_________________________
Telephone: 202-334-3680; FAX: 202-334-2614; Email Address: OCEE@NAS.EDU
Program Number: 009317
Source of Information: Miscellaneous; ;
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Sender: Trevor Gunn (GUNN@USITA.GOV)
Subject: World Bank Training Program for Russia
Received: from T-BIRD-Message_Server by t-bird.edu
with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:19:44 -0700
Message-Id: (s25e2d50.036@t-bird.edu
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:18:15 -0400
)From: Betsy Houde Rebekkah Carney (CARNEYR@t-bird.edu
To: gunn@USITA.GOV
Subject: World Bank Training Program for Russia
World Bank Project for Russia
"Enterprise Based Management Development"
The World Bank is cooperating with the Russian Government in launching
a project in management and financial training - financed by the World
Bank loan of 40 million USD, a grant of the Swiss Government of 1.4
million francs, and other donors. The National Training Foundation (NTF)
is a non-governmental, non-profit organization created with the aim to
help establish and develop an effective system of training for market
economy. It is an intermediary between the Russian Federal Government
and the World Bank.
The National Training Foundation (NTF) network consists of the NTF
located in Moscow and the Regional Training Foundations (RTF) in
Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod with a further expansion
at a later stage. This project focus on training and re-training of the
practitioners with the emphasis on programs with multiple effect:
training the trainers, strengthening educational institutions, use of distant
training and internships, hands-on learning, preparation of modern
curricula and teaching materials adjusted to Russian realities.
At this stage, the Regional Training Foundations are working primarily
on the Management Training or "Enterprise-Based Management
Development" program. The objectives of this program include:
o To demonstrate the value of action-oriented in-company management
and human resource development and its contribution to company re-
structuring, modernization, and performance improvement.
o To create an in-company capability for planning and implementing
effective management and human resource development programs.
o To design and implement in-company management and human
resource development programs in support of company restructuring,
modernization and performance improvement (the program scope and
time horizon should be harmonized with the restructuring/investment
programs pursued).
o To provide a role model likely to stimulate other Russian enterprises to
adopt a similar approach, therefore to document the work performed and
results achieved and share experience with a number of other
enterprises to be defined in collaboration with the RTF and NTF during
project implementation.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOUR COMPANY? This means that your
company or partners in Russia can apply for a loan combined with a
technical assistance grant for the specific management training needed
to successfully operate your firm in Russia. This could include an
internship for your partners in your firm in the U.S. To qualify, your
company must be a legally registered entity in Russia and interested in
training your staff. Each companies management training needs are
specific, and the World Bank has designed this program to provide your
company with diagnoses of individual company needs. This diagnoses
then results in a plan to develop in-company management and human
resource capabilities and start implementing a more effective, action-
oriented, approach to management and human resource development.
U.S. firms operating in Russia have an additional added advantage. The
American Graduate School of International Management (aka
Thunderbird), ranked number one in the U.S. by the U.S. News and
World Report March 18, 1996 issue, is offering customized business
training in Russia. This may be on-site at the company's location, at
the school's locations in Moscow or Nizhny Novgorod, or even in the
U.S. Thunderbird's school in Russia, called the Center for Business
Skills Development (CBSD) is funded by USAID. A combined training
effort between Thunderbird-CBSD and the RTF's World Bank project
provides American companies an opportunity to receive the maximum
amount of quality business training for their investment.
As a consultant to this project, it is my job to communicate with those
U.S. companies interested in applying for this program, help them
understand the World Bank and NTF requirements, and then guide
them through the proposal writing and approval stages. These stages
include completing: an application (with a Terms of Reference), a 3 page
project summary, and a maximum 10 page proposal.
If you would like further information, you may contact E. Houde in
Phoenix at (602 917-0079 (phone-fax) or in St. Petersburg at (7-812)
319-9626 (phone-fax). You may also send a stamped self-addressed
envelope to :World Bank Project, c/o E. Houde, P. O. Box 3854, Chandler,
Arizona. 85244-3854. An application form and instructions will be sent
by return mail.
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Sender: Joaquin Carlos Jimeno Romero (joaquin@servimail.ari.es)
Subject: about query 17 digest 1707
Barcelona,a 8 de Octubre de 1996
Apreciados amigos:
Aqui les remito la contestacion a la solicitud que realizo la senorita
Nika acerca del himno gaudeamus igitur. Tal contestacion ya se
la he remitido a su direccion pero por si alguien mas estuviera
interesado la envio a la lista de friends.
Gracias
Dear friends:
Here is the query about Gaudeamus Igitur for every
Thanks
Joaquin Carlos Jimeno Romero
joaquin@senda.ari.es
Barcelona,a 8 de Octubre de 1996
Dear Nika:
Your solicitude upon gaudeamus igitur it is
luck !
Apreciada Srta.Nika:
De la lista Friends he leido su solicitud y le transcribo completo
un articulo sobre este tema que se publico en el numero 277 de
la revista historia y vida en abril de 1991,n: 277,seccion consulto
rio, n. 2858.
Consulta 2858-Sobre el himno "Gaudeamus igitur"
Les agradeceria que pudieran informarme sobre la historia
del himno universitario "Gaudeamus igitur" asi como la letra del
mismo.
Manuel Alonso Macias .Vigo.Pontevedra.
El himno Gaudeamus igitur, es una cancion de las llamadas
goliardescas,que se cantaban en las tabernas estudiantiles
del siglo trece.Su texto esta en latin, un latin vulgar,que muchas
veces contiene palabras alemanas o francesas,ya que las
universidades de Heidelberg y Paris fueron centros difusores de
estas canciones,algunas de ellas bastante desvergonzadas.
Parece ser que el nombre de goliardos proviene de gula: La buena
bebida ,la buena mesa y la alegre compania femenina.
La popularidad entre los estudiantes de esa cancion y lo pega
dizo de su melodia -un remedo del canto gregoriano-facilitaron
su difusion en toda europa y mas adelante incluso en Norteame
rica.Actualmente se la considera el himno universitario interna
cional ,aunque no tiene ningun caracter oficial .La letra,natural
mente en latin es la siguiente:
gaudeamus igitur,juvenes dum sumus !
post jucundam juventutem,
post molestam senectutem
nos habebit humus,nos habebit humus
ubi sunt qui ante mundonos in fuere ?
vadite ad superos
transite ad inferos
ubi jam fuere ? ubi jam fuere ?
vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur,
venit mors velociter
rapit nos atrociter
nemini parcetur ,nemini parcetur!
vivat academia ! vivant profesores !
vivat membrum quodlibet !
vivant membra qualibet !
semper sint in flore ! semper sint in flore !
vivat et respublica ! et qui illam regit!
vivat nostra civiitas !
moecenatum caritas
quae nos hic protegit, quae nos hic protegit !
vivant omnes virgines, faciles, formosae !
vivant et mulieres !
tenerae, amabiles,
bonae, laboraiosae,bonae, laboraiosae !
pereat tristitiae! pereant osores!
pereat diabolus !
quivis antiburschius !
atque irrisores ! atque irrisores !
Suelen cantarse solo las estrofas primera,segunda y cuarta
Se acostumbra a repetir el primer verso de cada estrofa,dandole
un caracter solemne y festivo a la vez.Estamos seguros que
muchos de nuestros lectores, al leer esta consulta, recordaran con
nostalgia sus antiguos tiempos de estudiante.
!que sea para muchos a|os !
Stanton B. Clayton
Espero senorita Nika pueda entender el texto escrito en Espanol,
pues lamentablemente mi ingles es muy parco,salvo a nivel de
traduccion tecnica.
Si desea mas detalles sobre este y otros temas no dude en ponerse
en contacto conmigo.
Gracias y un Beso desde Espana.
Joaquin Carlos Jimeno Romero
joaquin@senda.ari.es
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Sender: Bohdan@TRYZUB.com (Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj)
Subject: UFP+: Ukrainian Weekly Preview October 6th, 1996 now ONLINE! TWG
Greetings,
The latest preview of the Ukrainian Weekly is now available
on the Ukraine FAQ Plus site! This is an exclusive regular
feature each week. The Ukrainian Weekly is the largest
weekly newspaper (in English) extant in the Western
world covering Ukrainian issues both in Ukraine and in the
Ukrainian Diaspora.The preview is available on Internet at the
address of the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project. You can obtain
subscription information in order to read the complete articles
when you visit the web-site.
In addition, see the latest updates to the MAJOR conference on
matters Ukrainian this year under the TWG conference item!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Also, I am including FORBES magazine on my list. They evidently
have no proper information about Ukraine and it is hoped that they
actually may read this and eventually learn to do proper research
in future articles about the largest country whose borders are wholly
in Europe. I can only but contribute to this positive endeavor.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Please note that one may now browse the FAQ project using
an advanced three dimensional navigational tool. Point your
browser to http://www.tryzub.com/ for information on how
to download the plug-in for your browser and the actual "mcf"
image which is used for this.
The address of the Ukraine FAQ Plus Project is now:
http://www.std.com/sabre/UKRAINE.html
Either click the button labelled "Current Events" by the
Tryzub (Trident) graphic or scroll down and click the
"Current Events" section summary to access this latest
news.
As always, please feel free to email us at faq@tryzub.com
with comments.We always are looking for contributions
as well.
Regards,
Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj
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